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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Take that!
Aerodrome Safety reported that the aircraft, a French registered CL-5T ( Global Express) arrived at Whitecourt and parked at the forestry ramp without asking permission or requesting prior authorization. Fire fighting operations were and have been in full force for … Continue reading
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Living in technicolor
Having now seen these guys in concert, this video is even funnier than I thought possible. (PS: this is a killer song.)
Posted in High Fidelity
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The wing and the prayer
News of Boeing’s decision to postpone the first flight of the 787-8 zipped around today, and I was struck initially by a profound sense of sadness. I am by no means any kind of stakeholder in the whole composite airplane … Continue reading
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Open Letter #91: A bullet hole in my bucket
Dear Canadian Top 40 Radio Stations, I know you have to fulfill your Canadian Content programming requirements, but for the love of God, you really, really, really have to stop playing Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Bucket”. Anyone who samples children’s nursery … Continue reading
Posted in High Fidelity
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Low speed, high drag
It only took 4.5 years, but I’ve finally put some of my favorite pictures from Japan online. Turns out that going to Flickr is a lot easier than writing a bunch of HTML. What can I say? I’m weak. Going … Continue reading
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Subtle
The Delta Police Department is recruiting. I wonder which emergency service is full of unhappy people right now?
Posted in Whine and Cheese
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Pensee
There are few things more disheartening to a nerd than trying to retrieve data off a hard drive that is in the process of failing intermittently. It’s like playing a kind of backwards slot machine: how much data will come … Continue reading
Outcome measures
Atul Gawande has a tremendously important article in the 1 June 2009 issue of The New Yorker, which should be read by everyone, regardless of ideological bent, who cares about health care reform in both the United States and Canada. … Continue reading
"Bruce Springsteen singing for a Cure cover band"
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about The Gaslight Anthem for a couple of months now. It’s challenging. When I wrote my giant mash note to Edie Carey and Rose Cousins, I was writing about a couple … Continue reading
Ahhh.
After 6+ months of letting it pile up in my mailbox, I have managed to reduce my “unread, unsorted, and unreplied-to” collection of e-mail from 3,651 messages to 0. Okay, I had to vaporize a bunch of mailing list traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Grim Meathook World, Riot Nrrd
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